Varieties of English (B.Ed. M 4.2/Zwei-Fach-Bachelor M 3.2) - Einzelansicht

In this class you will...

... develop a better understanding of the English sound system (from the past to present-day).

... learn how to read academic publication in linguistics.

... hone your writing skills, so that you can develop an argument and present it in a written format.

... learn how to find academic publications in order to bolster your own line of argumentation.

... practice writing short texts on a topic in linguistics.

... become more aware of the specific academic conventions in the field of Linguistics.

... learn more about your own way of speaking and using English in different contexts.

Please select as many sections of this course as your schedule allows. Avoid registering for sections that conflict with other courses you're enrolled in. If you need to swap courses after you have been assigned a spot, you can only do so with a designated swap partner.

Please note that topics and/or course materials for the three groups in this seminar may be different, as there are different instructors. Check specific details below for each relevant group. Make sure you are prepared for your respective seminar.

Group 3 (Fridays from 10-12)

Required Course Books

(1) Hansen Edwards, J. G. (2023). The Sounds of English Around the World: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894562

All of the material required in class will be made available online for you to download. As part of the course, you will be asked to search for additional texts and material.

If you do not attend the first session of a course, you will lose your Zulassung (ZU) and your spot might go to a fellow student on the waiting list (WL). Should you have an important reason for missing the first session of a course (e.g. illness), you have to inform the instructor and the secretary in advance. For absences due to illness you have to submit a medical certificate. If you do not notify us and/or do not have an important reason, you will get the lowest priority for getting a spot in this course in later semesters.

B.Ed. Englisch (alte PO, bis SS 2021)

Prerequisites: Competences from M1 & M2; this means that you need to have successfully passed both modules before taking part in any of the M4 courses.

Strongly recommended temporal sequence of courses in M 4 and M 5 ("alte PO" )

Semester 1: attend M 4.3 Writing Skills before you attend M 4.1 Literatures in English and M 4.2 Varieties of English, attend M 5.1

Semester 2: attend M 4.1 and M 4.2, attend M 5.2/5.3/5.44, sign up for the M 4 exam, and start to write the term paper for M 5

Semester 3: implement the feedback (second copy) you received for M 4 in your M 5 term paper, revise the term paper, sign up, and submit

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B.Ed. Englisch (neue PO, ab WS 21/22) 

Die neuen Modulhandbücher/Vorrausetzungen zur Kursteilnahme (Stand Oktober 2021) gelten für Sie genau dann, wenn das SS 2022 Ihr erstes oder zweites Fachsemester Englisch bzw. Anglistik und Amerikanistik im jeweiligen Studiengang war.

Prerequisites: Competences from M1, M2 & M3.3; this means that you need to have successfully passed both modules (M1 & M2) and the 'Teilmodul 3.3' before taking part in any of the M4 courses.

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Attendance Policy:

This course requires regular participation and real-time interaction in class to promote the learning objectives of holistic English language acquisition and discourse competence to meet the exam requirements within the framework of Content-and-Language-Integrated Learning.

If you do not attend the first session of a course, you will lose your Zulassung (ZU) and your spot might go to a fellow student on the waiting list (WL).
If you have an important reason for missing the first session of a course (return from your stay abroad during the first lecture week or illness), you have to inform the instructor and the secretary in advance. For absences due to illness you have to submit a medical certificate.

The written exam will take the form of a portfolio. In addition to other oral and short writing tasks in the individual courses, you are asked to write 2 essays of 800-1000 words in linguistics.